The British Musical Biography

[E] Tallis or Tallys, Thomas, composer and
organist, born about 1520-1529. He is sup-
posed to have been a chorister in the Chapel
Royal. Organist of Waltham Abbey till 1540.
Gentleman of the Chapel Royal during reigns
of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and
Elizabeth. Joint organist with Byrd, of the
Chapel Royal, and joint patentee with him
in the exclusive right to print music. He
died on November 23, 1585, and was buried
in Parish Church of Greenwich.

[W] Works. — Cantiones quse ab argumento
Sacrse vocantur, quinque et sex partium,
London, 1575. The Preces, Chants, Te Deum,
Benedictus, Responses, Litany, Kyrie, Creed,
Sanctus, Gloria, Magnificat, and Nunc Dimit-
tis (Church of England Service), first printed
in Barnard's Collection, 1641, and since re-
printed many times by Novello, Rimbault,
Jebb, etc. Song of Forty Parts, for eight
choirs of five voices each, "Spem in alium
non habui." The Order of the Daily Service of
the United Church of England and Ireland,
edited by John Bishop, London, 1843. An-
thems : All people that on earth do dwell ;
Come, Holy Ghost ; Hear the voice and prayer ;
I call and cry ; If ye love Me ; Hear my prayer ;

[+] Blessed are those ; Salvator j\Iundi (motet) ;
and many others in MS. contained in the-
British Museum, Music School of Oxford, Fitz-
william ^Museum, Cambridge, and elsewhere.

[+] In 1876 a brass memorial tablet was placed
in Greenwich Parish Church, which was pro-
vided by subscriptions gathered on the sugges-
tion of Henry Walter Miller {q.v.).

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